Your Colleagues in the NewsCheck out the top-reaching stories of academic impact in traditional media. Metrics draw from English-language print, broadcast and online global media outlets. | Top stories (Feb. 17-23*) |
-
Following a CDC report that the rate of death during pregnancy spiked during COVID-19, Janelle Bolden discusses the possible causes. Bolden was cited in 454 stories for a reach of 10.8 million. Top outlets include Al Jazeera, ABC News and The Huffington Post.
-
Sara Katsanis discusses the ethics of entering crime victims' DNA into databases that can later be accessed by law enforcement. The comments follow a story about a San Francisco woman who was tied to a crime by DNA she submitted as part of a rape kit years prior. Katsanis was cited in 163 stories for a reach of 5.7 million. Top outlets include the Associated Press, U.S. News, CTV News and The Huffington Post.
-
As many school districts and municipalities begin lifting COVID-19 mask mandates, Mercedes Carnethon, Sadiya Khan and Melissa Simon discuss the health implications of the new guidance. They were cited in 21 stories for a reach of 4 million. Top outlets include The Washington Post, NBC News and Salon.
*To allow time for data processing and validation, the reporting period for top stories and quantitative media metrics runs Thursday-Wednesday. |  |
| In the spotlight | Read in-depth coverage of Northwestern faculty work and research. |  From MSNBC “A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence" is currently an exhibition at Northwestern University’s Block Museum. The exhibit shows how Americans have used art to cope with, process, mourn and memorialize anti-Black violence from 1890s anti-lynching protests to the modern day Black Lives Matter movement. |
| Trending News | These are the trending topics in the news and on social media that we’re keeping our eyes on this week. If you have a viewpoint or expertise on any of the topics below and you’re willing to talk to reporters about them, email us at media@northwestern.edu. | We're looking for experts on the following topics | Facebook parent company Meta said Sunday night that it has taken down a coordinated Russian influence operation that was targeting Ukrainians across Facebook and Instagram. The company said the misinformation campaign has ties to another Russian network that was previously banned from Facebook in April 2020. | The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, according to a major new United Nations report released Monday. The report concludes that nations aren’t doing nearly enough to protect cities, farms and coastlines from the hazards that climate change has unleashed so far. | As the impacts of global climate change exact an increasingly dire human and economic toll, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is considering a major challenge to the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat greenhouse gas emissions from thousands of American power plants. The justices are hearing oral arguments in a case that pits major coal and mining companies and Republican-led states against the Biden administration, power utilities and public health groups that see EPA's authority as critical for curbing the climate crisis. | Most people in the United States live in areas where those who are healthy do not need to wear masks indoors, according to new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance — a sweeping change from what earlier COVID-19 metrics recommended. | No moment in America's yearly political calendar is so grand or so daunting as the State of the Union address, a speech the president usually delivers to a joint session of Congress early in the year. This year, President Biden is due to deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. | President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday, kicking off what is likely to be a high-profile Senate confirmation process. Jackson must be approved by the Senate, a power given to the chamber in the Constitution. |
| NU Voices | Read perspectives from Northwestern faculty in national media. |  From Sandeep Baliga, Crain's Chicago Business "Targeted sanctions would seize the assets of the Russian elite, often in the form of property and financial holdings in the West. Alternatively, comprehensive sanctions could be employed in an attempt to cripple Russia’s economy and affect the Russian population at large. These two types of sanctions can be combined or used on their own. Tempting as it may be to go to the extreme of using both levers to their maximum, it is better to use only targeted sanctions on members of the elite who influence policy in Russia," Sandeep Baliga writes in Crain's Chicago Business. |  From Ian Kelly, The Bulwark "While Russian President Vladimir Putin is focused on Ukraine now, his goals are broader. He is intent on keeping Russia’s neighbors looking to Moscow and not to the West. He also wants to ensure those neighbors do not become successful democracies — i.e., possible inspirations to Russians to question his corrupt and authoritarian rule," Ian Kelly writes in The Bulwark with co-author David J. Kramer. |  From Steven Lubet, NBC News "President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday is an absolute home run. Jackson has all of the traditional qualifications to be an outstanding justice, plus her identity as the first African American female nominee makes her selection pathbreaking. But she also has another great virtue: She recently survived a Senate confirmation process when Biden elevated her to the appellate court last year, so it will be much harder for Republicans to cause problems in her ascension to the high court," Steven Lubet writes for NBC News. |
| Media metrics | The following metrics reflect Northwestern's performance in 75 priority media outlets, chosen based on their reach and influence with key academic audiences. | Priority Media Outlet Performance Metrics | Coverage over time: |  |
| Northwestern topic breakdown: |  | | *Topic areas are assigned based on keyword search and reflect the subject of the article, not the department or unit of the individual cited. Some articles may be counted under multiple topic areas. |
|
| About | This weekly newsletter serves as a resource for faculty and communications staff, sharing news opportunities and highlighting faculty and University successes in traditional media. It also provides communications tools such as media training resources and announcements about upcoming sessions.
By providing these resources, we hope to help faculty show their expertise to a national and international audience as well as recognize those who are making an impact.
We welcome your feedback on this and all of our communications tools. You can reach us any time at media@northwestern.edu.
Subscribe to Northwestern in the Media. |
|
|
